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It's unfortunate how under appreciated is statistics, in nearly all (spare academic) positions that I occupied, mostly in the technical domain interacting with
by 3abiton 2y ago
It's unfortunate how under appreciated is statistics, in nearly all (spare academic) positions that I occupied, mostly in the technical domain interacting with non-technical stakeholders, anectodal evidence always take priority compared to statistical backed data, for decision making. It's absurd sometimes.
- bsder 2y agoThis is because the correct answer is rarely the politically palatable answer.
- TheAceOfHearts 2y agoAnecdotally, the way I've heard many stats related tools described is as follows: if the tool confirms something that we already knew then it's a waste of time or money because it doesn't tell us anything new, and if it doesn't agree with what we already know then it's obviously wrong. I don't think it's a trivial problem though. It's notoriously easy to twist stats to sell any narrative. And Goodhart's Law all but guarantees that any meaningful metric will get hacked.